Welcome to Channel one. This channel is made of 12 complete seminais and, each one is prepare you step by step for the beginming of your clínica work. Here is something very important: every seminar includes a key word or a key sentence - a short phrase that I'll say during the class that Will not appear on the screen or in support material. In only comes in the spoken lesson with a quick pause to make it clear. Your tas is simple: listen carefully, write it down and send it back to us...

This opening seminar introduces the heart of psychoanalytic work: the position of the analyst. We explore what it means to listen in a way that goes beyond advice, guidance, or quick solutions — a listening that allows the unconscious to speak. Through Freud’s early clinical discoveries and the emergence of transference, we consider why the analyst must hold a position of neutrality and “evenly suspended attention.” The seminar invites you to reflect on what makes psychoanalytic listening unique, why the analyst’s silence matters, and how this stance opens the space for desire to emerge. By the end of this seminar, you will see that psychoanalysis is not about telling the patient what to do, but about creating a setting where the patient can encounter their own truth.

This seminar examines what it truly means to listen in psychoanalysis, moving beyond simply hearing the patient’s words. We explore the rupture between hearing and psychoanalytic listening, the symptom as a gap in language, and what is heard beyond the explicit content of speech. Drawing from Freud’s concept of evenly suspended attention and Lacan’s understanding of the unconscious as structured like a language, we consider the ethical stance of the analyst — refusing to lead, avoiding premature interpretation, and sustaining a space where the patient’s desire can emerge. Clinical examples highlight how listening includes not only words, but also silences, repetitions, gestures, and absences, allowing the subject to eventually begin listening to themselves.

This seminar explores the symptom not as something to be quickly removed, but as a message to be listened to. We examine how psychoanalysis treats the symptom as a compromise formation — a creative, if painful, solution to an unconscious conflict. Using Freud’s case studies and Lacan’s idea that the symptom has a structure of language, we discuss how to shift from seeing symptoms as enemies to approaching them as guides to the patient’s history and desire. We look at the difference between symptom relief and subjective transformation. By the end, you will see how working with symptoms is less about making them disappear and more about letting them reveal what has been repressed, opening a path for change.

This seminar explores the unique importance of the first session in psychoanalysis as the inaugural moment of transference. We discuss how the analyst’s task is not to guide or interpret too quickly, but to hold open a space where the patient’s story can begin to unfold. We examine the value of silence, of suspending judgment, and of resisting the urge to “help” too soon, as these impulses often reflect the analyst’s own anxiety. We contrast analytic listening with more directive approaches, showing why the analyst’s position must be one of non-knowing and symbolic presence rather than advice-giving. We also explore the fantasies and expectations that both patient and analyst bring into the room, and how the analyst’s desire quietly shapes the encounter. Even without interpretation, something is already happening: the way the patient speaks, pauses, or resists; the way the analyst listens; the first traces of transference. The first session is not a preparation for analysis — it is analysis beginning.

This seminar dives into the dynamics of transference and resistance as the living core of the analytic process. We explore how past relationships are repeated in the analytic setting and how the analyst can recognize when resistance appears — whether as silence, anger, compliance, or intellectualization. Rather than seeing resistance as an obstacle, we reframe it as meaningful communication from the unconscious. Clinical vignettes illustrate how to work with transference love, negative transference, and defensive repetitions, transforming them into opportunities for insight and change. By the end, you will see why analysis requires patience, courage, and the willingness to work through what is most difficult.

This seminar focuses on the power of silence in analysis. We examine how silence can be a space where unconscious material emerges, as well as how it can be used defensively by the patient or even by the analyst. We discuss the ethics of interpretation, exploring when speech is necessary and when holding back is more powerful. Drawing from Winnicott’s concept of holding and Lacan’s notion of the analyst’s desire, we look at how the analyst’s presence can be felt even in silence. Through clinical examples, you will see how well-timed interpretations and well-sustained silences both serve the same goal: allowing the patient’s speech to take center stage.

This seminar explores the ethical dimension of psychoanalysis, which is not about moral rules but about sustaining the place of desire. We examine Freud’s commitment to truth and Lacan’s statement that “the only thing of which one can be guilty is giving up on one’s desire.” We discuss how the analyst’s ethics involve respecting the unconscious, not imposing solutions, and avoiding the temptation to normalize or adapt the patient. The seminar shows how ethics in psychoanalysis is a practice — a way of holding a position that allows the patient’s unique truth to emerge.